South-South Migration and Remittances

By D. Ratha, W. Shaw. 2007

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South-South Migration and Remittances reports on preliminary results from an ongoing effort to improve data on bilateral migration stocks. It sets out some working hypotheses on the determinants and socioeconomic implications of South-South migration. Contrary to popular perception that migration is mostly a South-North phenomenon, South-South migration is large. Available data from national censuses suggest that nearly half of the migrants from developing countries reside in other developing countries. Almost 80 percent of South-South migration takes place between countries with contiguous borders. Estimates of South-South remittances range from 9 to 30 percent of developing countries' remittance receipts in 2005. Although the impact of South-South migration on the income of migrants and natives is smaller than for South-North migration, small increases in income can have substantial welfare implications for the poor. The costs of South-South remittances are even higher than those of North-South remittances. These findings suggest that policymakers should pay attention to the complex challenges that developing countries face not only as countries of origin, but also as countries of destination.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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South–South Migration and Human Development: Reflections on African Experiences (2009, background): “The Global Migrant Origin Database prepared by Sussex University remains the best available for estimating the movement of migrants within and between regions (Ratha and Shaw 2007), but it is important to bear some caveats in mind.”
Familiarity Breeds Investment: Diaspora Networks and International Investment (2010, background): “Recent studies have already documented that migrant laborers remit a substantial amount of capital (Leuth and Ruiz-Arranz 2006; Ratha and Shaw 2007).”
Migration transitions: A theoretical and empirical inquiry into the developmental drivers of international migration (2010, background): “Neo-classical migration theory was pioneered by Todaro (1969) and Harris and Todaro (1970) to explain rural-urban migration in developing countries but has also been applied to international migration (cf.”
Migration and Remittances: Recent Developments and Outlook (2015, background): “The majority of countries have 6 This has been noted since 2006 – see Ratha and Shaw (2007).”
RETURN MIGRATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN GHANA AND CÔTE D’IVOIRE: THE ROLE OF CAPITAL TRANSFERS (2009, background): “…example, the UN estimates that the stock of African international migrants grew from just over 9 million in 1960 to over 17 million in 2005, 1 while Ratha and Shaw (2006) show that there were at least 14.5 million Sub-Saharan African migrants in 2001, of whom 4 million were in high-income OECD…”
Migration, diversity, and economic growth (2017, methodology): “We refer the interested reader to Ratha and Shaw (2007) and Ratha et al. (2016) for a thorough description of the methodology and a more comprehensive overview than we can possibly give here.”
South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica (2009, neutral): “…in Costa Rica T. H. Gindling University of Maryland Baltimore County and IZA Discussion Paper No. 3279 January 2008 IZA P.O. Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone: +49-228-3894-0 Fax: +49-228-3894-180 E-mail: iza@iza.org Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA.”
Remittances and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka (2012, background): “The size of emigrant stocks is arguably the most important determinant of remittances (see Freund and Spatafora, 2008; Lueth and Ruiz-Arranz, 2008; Ratha and Shaw, 2006; and Singh et al., 2011).”
Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical? (2011, background): “Ratha and Shaw (2005) , in the absence of hard data on bilateral flows, allocate the totals across partners.”
Quantifying International Migration: A Database of Bilateral Migrant Stocks (2007, methodology): “Ratha’s (2006) results and data (which focus on the South-South dimension) differ a little: his are scaled up to 2005, contain 14 fewer countries but 15 million more migrants, have treated "other" and residual categories differently, and have combined foreign-born and foreign nationality differently”
Estimates of Global Bilateral Migration Flows by Gender between 1960 and 20151 (2018, background): “Additional bilateral migrant stock data, such as estimates by Parsons et al. (2007), Ratha and Shaw (2007), Jean-Christophe, Spielvogel, and Widmaier (2010), or Artuc et al. (2015) are not used, as they are restricted in their global coverage or provide stock data at only one or two time points,…”
Where on Earth is Everybody? The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration 1960–2000 (2011, neutral): “Ratha and Shaw (2007) use an earlier version of the dataset in a paper focusing on migration between developing countries (generally referred to as South–South migration in the literature) and bilateral remittance flows.”